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The son of a lawyer, John McIntire was born in Washington and raised in Montana, developing a taste for the life of a rancher before confining himself to the environs of the theater. Upon graduating from U.S.C., McIntire briefly went to sea, then... more
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Cast: Burt Lancaster Robert Aldrich
Tags: Revisionist Western Western Indian Western
Length: 91min
Apache was based on Paul I. Wellman's novel Broncho Apache, which in turn was inspired by a true story. Burt Lancaster plays Massai, a lieutenant of the great Apache warrior Geronimo (here depicted as an old man, played by Monte Blue). Though his...
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Cast: Tyrone Power Piper Laurie Hugh Beaumont
Tags: Drama Adventure Adventure Drama Romantic Adventure
Length: 99min
1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each time. Tyrone Power plays an all-around adventurer who cuts quite a swath through antebellum New Orleans. In between scenes of...
Cast: Henry Mancini
Tags: Western
Length: 78min
Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold prospector Andy Martin, who has a serious falling out with his partner Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) over the affections of pretty Nevada...
Cast: Susan Hayward Charlton Heston
Tags: Marriage Drama Biopic Drama Historical Film Romance
Length: 96min
The President's Lady is an historical drama starring Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson and Susan Hayward as his wife Rachel, Jackson marries Rachel after she divorces her unfaithful first husband (Whitfield Connor), with scandal resulting when the...
Cast: Anthony Quinn Gregory Peck
Tags: Adventure Drama Action Adventure
Length: 104min
Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn play two seal-hunting rivals in this adventure film set in the days when Alaska was a Russian territory. Peck is adventuring seafarer Jonathan Clark, who falls in love with Russian Countess Marina Selanova (Ann Blyth)...
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Cast: James Cagney
Tags: Satire Political Drama Drama
Length: 90min
In 1945, James Cagney, through his independent production company, bought the rights to a lurid novel by Adria Locke Langley, concerning the rise of a Southern demagogue, loosely based on the political career of Huey Long. By the time the film finally...
Tags: Comedy
Length: 90min
Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young girls. Sally's faith in the efficacy of St. Anne has a salutary affect on all those in her orbit. It can also be said that Sally's...
Cast: Hugh O'Brian Raoul Walsh
Tags: Action Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film
Length: 83min
The Lawless Breed is based on the exploits of Texas bad man John Wesley Hardin, played here quite convincingly by Rock Hudson. The film takes the Cecil B. DeMille approach of condemning evil by showing as much evil as the censor will allow. After...
Tags: War Drama Revisionist Western Western
Length: 78min
War Arrow is another of Universal's efficiently produced A plus/B minus Technicolor westerns of the early 1950s. Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler star as, respectively, army major Howell Brady and his former sweetheart Elaine Corwin. As Elaine awaits...
Cast: Rock Hudson Budd Boetticher Raymond Burr
Tags: Action Western Traditional Western
Length: 81min
Set in the years following the Civil War, Horizons West stars Robert Ryan as Dan Hammond, one of three Texans who decide to return home after the cessation of hostilities. While his brother Neal (Rock Hudson) and his friend Tiny (James Arness) decide...
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